Eber Baten, 25, was turning off Jamaica Ave. in a Ford Econoline van onto 129th St. in Ozone Park when he slammed into Isabel Duarte just before 7 a.m., according to cops. (The police tracked down Eber Baten of Queens, who killed pedestrian Isabel Duarte, also of Queens, in the crash at the intersection of Jamaica Ave. and 129th St. in Ozone Park just before 7 a.m.)

An unlicensed hit-and-run driver killed a church-going great-grandmother as she crossed the street a half-block away from her Queens home Wednesday morning, police and her family said.

Relatives described Isabel Duarte, 90, as the iron-willed, proud matriarch of their family.

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"My mother was the queen of the community, she knew everybody and she spoke to everybody," said one son, Fidel Bernal, 55. "She was the strongest woman on earth. Nothing stopped her. She would go to the doctor on Long Island. She would take the LIRR, she was always out here.”

According to authorities, Duarte was crossing 129th St. in Ozone Park just before 7 a.m. — just half a block from her home — when Eber Baten, 25, driving a white church van — slammed the Ford Econoline into her. Medics rushed Duarte to nearby Jamaica Hospital, but she couldn’t be saved.

Isabel Duarte, 90 was killed in a hit and run in Queens on Wednesday. (Handout)

Baten sped away, parking his van on 116th St. near Myrtle Ave., where police later found him. He also lived within a couple of blocks from the crash scene.

"He left, he didn’t even stop. He mowed her down and kept going,” said another devastated son, Renato Bernal, 50. “He's going to get what he deserves.”

Baten was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, failure to yield, driving without a license and failure to exercise due care At his arraignment in Queens Criminal Court on Wednesday, bail was set at $10,000.

Michael Rosario, a cab driver for Big Q, help chase down Baten, Duarte’s family said, and Bernal called him “our hero” for having “saved the day.”

Rosario told the Daily News that “when I saw it I thought of my mom and I did it because what if it was my family."

Bernal said he was walking to work when he saw the crash scene, and phoned his mom — only to get a police officer on the other end of the call, telling him he had to go to the hospital.

He now hopes to push the city to put speed bumps on the street in his mother’s honor, to prevent speeding drivers from using it as a cut-through from Jamaica Ave. to Atlantic Ave.

Duarte, who moved to Queens from Colombia 50 years ago, turned 90 on Sept. 9. She had nine children, 18 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren, and when her husband died in 1998, she “gave her life to the lord and never remarried,” her son said. Relatives said she went to church twice a week, woke up at dawn to sweep leaves outside her house, and insisted on cooking and cleaning herself, even when her children offered help.

On Wednesday, she was on her way to a doctor’s appointment, her family said.

“She had at least 10 more years,” said her granddaughter, Isabel Bernal, 24. “Family barbecues, birthdays, this was the house to go to. The woman could have no food in the house and turn it into a full course meal."